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Collector’s Choice: Woodstock, In Love We Trust, Eternal Sunshine on Blu-Ray
Slim pickings this Tuesday (June 9th 2009) as there are only a trio of titles worth recommending. Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut is a fully equipped edition of the Michael Wadleigh documentary film, a great father's day present that curiously comes out before Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and not sometime in August when Woodstock took place.
Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’ Gets Certified Start
Certified Copy suffered from multiple false starts, but after three years of nonsense it appears that Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has his two feet on Italian soil making this his first film outside his home. Filming begins today in Italy's Cortona, Lucignano and Arezzo in Tuscany.
No More Mulling Over Radford’s La Mula
With more coin invested in the film, Michael Radford (most recently directed William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Flawless) is finally receiving the greenlight for his Spanish Civil War comedy. Shooting officially begins on August 31st in Andalusia with Maria Valverde .
A Silver Screen Future for God of Carnage?
No one made any preemptive bids for the play beforehand, but yesterday's win could alter (for the better) the chances of seeing God of Carnage onto the big screen. Perhaps with Christopher Hampton attached to translate the piece to script form and possibly direct?
Paramount ‘Pray’ for Bardem to Join
Paramount Pictures have got themselves an easy top grossing box office winner (the book has sold 5 million copies) in Eat, Pray, Love, and now they may have an Oscar winner in the Spanish actor.
